Chances are you've become more aware of diseases and pandemic in the past couple years. Plaguing humanity since before recorded history, disease has hammered civilizations incessantly. It has taken more lives than natural disasters and war put together .Author Sean Martin provides an accessible history of diseases. Using an interdisciplinary approach, he chronicles the journey and manifestations of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from prehistory to the recent past. You'll read about diseases including the Black Death, Spanish Flu, cholera, leprosy, syphilis, cancer, and Ebola. It's not all academic. Martin provides a guide to ailments and provides advice on the methods used to cure them.(This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)